Comments for present number allemaal

(Replying to third comment suggesting for a forum where other people can add work)

That's just not what lfs is about, frankly. Besides the fact it's a lot of moderating keeping such a forum, there are so many forums like that around. This website is about my work, and i like to keep it that way. :)

I like to have complete freedom when making presents, so they have a complete page for themselves. I don't wanna change that. Some presents are small, but others are 800x600 or even larger, that would never fit in.

But I understand. In the western world we don't want to think about death etc. Which is not good because any human being is trained for all sorts of things, but we are not prepared to accept our own death.

Sometimes i go through a weekend not watching tv, not reading news. Like this weekend. So when i opened the newspaper this evening, it came as a complete shock to me. Only a week ago on Dutch tv there was a documentary on Gerard Reve, which i enjoyed watching. I havne't read all his books. But i do remember starting toread 'Nader tot u' in the airplane on my way to London, as i write here: http://www.lfs.nl/greymatter/archives/00000052.html

I might be more influenced by Reve than i realise, more by friends than by having read the books. Its a pity there is no 'U' in english, the polite form of 'you'. ('Sie' in german.) I always enjoy using that word. It creates distance, but when i do, its used intimate. You should honour the people closest to thee.

It's hard to define typical scritti. From the post-punk late seventies, to the lush synthesizer mid eighties, to the hiphop late nineties to the guitar pop of now. Ofcourse i don't know what the finished album will be like, only been to 2 live gigs, which might deviate from it.

After that, uhm, yeah, if you do like Boom Boom Bap, there are more gems like that! There are only 5 albums up untill now: Songs to Remember (82), Cupid & Psyche (85), Provision (88), Anomie & Bonhomie (99), Early (05 - songs from the 78-81 time). Cupid & Psyche is an absolute classic, if you don't know that music, your life is not complete. :-) The Word Girl is great, Woodbeez, Absolute, A little knowledge.

Personally i love Songs to Remember, especially 'The Sweetest Girl'. Brushed with oil, Dusted with powder from Anomie & Bonhomie is another of my favourites. And i also like Skank Bloc Bologna and PA's from the Early compilation.

its starts small, excited but determined in its initial pulse out write-ways, return... return. the period... monitoring? it picks up a knowledge of its self, in rhyme with it's before. as it grows in confidence it has a dense white clarity, a thick oneness with itself!!! which it grows and holds... for ever in its memory whilst 'it' is. but maybe it becomes bored in this clarity recognising its repetition... or over extends its desire or power to one-ify(?)... which ever, from then on an unhappiness is apparent...but it goes on, bravely weaning itself off the fat white milk of clarity... always returning, till it regains its modesty and with it the search. hoorraaghgh

how do sums relate to pictures? i don't understand the coded construction... so i'll make up a meaning... hmmmm... for all creation? thanks.

i've been enjoying your site for over an hour now. i find it cleanly over there... and it makes me shiver a bit... quite excellent and brilliant... very shining bright... and the sums you must play with to get them... they're much better than most after equals answers... i norrmalee find the world beautifully abstracted enough to really enjoy further picture levity ing -- resulting a mythself cursing - abit ugly i know. but your pictures come/came right from the other bit to give me some new stuff... they are so just good. like a newvision!!,, that'll teach'zz for morrmaleeficating,,, thanks,, very,very much. ART... loved shouting that,,

To be honest, i'm much more occupied with the internal code and methods, getting to grips with this OOP stuff, which is gonna take me some time. Probably a bit much for little things like this, but i do want to learn how to code better and maybe build up a little library of my own. Eventually.

truly beautiful. I LOVE your... i guess site. I'm not really sure what to call it but it is the most interesting entertaing thing I have ever found. and i love your pictures on the comment backgrounds.

As i said, there must be a more elegant way of coding this. This is simply a matter of keeing adding things. No time te make a reset, which is probably not that hard, but you know, just reload the page!

Fun to make all kinds of drawings.. and yeah, its very reminiscent of the snowflakes you saw online a couple of years back.. i know.

The technology behind is actually related to the previous one, using multi dimensional arrays to control the grid of movieclips. As always, adding a little bit of animation at the end works wonders. Its a pleasure working on these kind of things, and even more so when you just happen to stumble on something which almost looks magical.

I like the fact that Green seems to be a nice cool guy. Something I always thought he would be.

But there has never been a bubble for me. Maybe because I make music myself.

Green has a fantastic voice
Green is a great and unique composer
Green seems to be a nice guy

The gig at the Luminaire was a very personal gig I think, Green was even a bit anxious and you could see and hear this. This makes the experience a lot more personal than those gigs where musicians are only doing their 'routines'. Therefore this was such a memorable gig. Very emotional.

I think I can relate to this whole thing. Lovin' music, the need to stop performing live because of panic attacks.

I was way to nervous to go for the picture together with Green. Some other people did, boy, do i envy them. But in the end Marco, Ernst and myself did talk with Green for a short bit. Ernst bought him a guinness, clever guy!

All in all, it was such a unique experience. Once in a lifetime. I probably will see them again, either in London or here in Holland. Yeah, there might be a short european tour. The Melkweg in Amsterdam was mentioned, good news! I'm really happy i went to this gig, which was introduced as a live rehearsal. There were some technical glitches, some songs obviously still in need of polishing.

After only one listen i can't comment on the quality of the songs, i'm not a technical listener anyway. I can only say, i liked it. A lot. Can't wait to hear the album, which probably will sound different from the live show, as it should.

OK, time for me to go to bed, catch up on my sleep. I'm completely worn out. But happy!

Complimentary is a word, and thank you for the information. Unfortunately I do not have Photoshop on my computer here at work, just a lame old version of correlDraw. But, then again, we all need limitations.

I used Photoshop. The plain brush, with mode on 'exclusion'. One of my favourites, you paint with complimentary (is that a word?) colours, and when you paint over another colour, it changes into its complimentary colour too. Gives a lot of colour and continually changes while you work on it.

You should, ofcourse, stop when the pictures done. That takes some practice and is very hard to pinpoint.

A crossover from work, was struggling with some javascript, so i did a further study at home. Do have to get the hang of it, its so much alike to actionscript, but going trhough the DOM takes some practice.

Its not like a have a perfectly formed idea in my head and than make a present. Most of the times i'm not sure why i do something, i'm interested in technical details, like for example in this present everything is actionscripted, but also tha mindmaps i made over the past few months. I throw some things in the mix and see what comes out of it.

So 'problems haunting you' is a valid option, 'wanting too much' might be another, or 'loosing sight on your problems'.

I had an idea for a variation, maybe i'll finish that tonight, for a completely different meaning! :-)

I always jump between tis and that like php,dhtml,javascript and who knows what and by the time I get back to flash it isn't even flash anymore or html or php there is just to much to keep up with
AAArrrrggghhhh......
help i'm drownding
bill

An inbetween present, barely fitting the name. Expect some cute cat pictures soon! I was really nervous, getting a young kitten with my two your old Mr. Mouse in the house, but things are working out. They play together, sleep together sometimes. Mr. Mouse is a bit off all the same, its a big change for him. And Little Mieke is tough little kitten used to fighting for what she wants.

Getting interested in javascript again, but i do need to dig kinda deep, its been years. Really rusty. So this is as basic as you can get, and i don't know if it works in IE. It does in Firefox and Safari on the mac, only Safari doesn't show background colours for the input fields. Should get the lowdown on that, noticed before Safari doesn't do css on form elements.

I expressed my delight in your pages then and still check back to see what you are up to every few days.

I have been receiving advertisments offering to sell me stationary embossed with gold ribbons celebrating the 10th anniversary of my site, which did start in primitive form in 1995 (and never moved much beyond that). But, except for a few photo albums at LGrossman.com/pics/ and a page I maintain for a local community organization, I have not kept up my pages or added anything new lately.

I miss the challenge and freedom of writing my almost monthly Modemjunkie essay. I have written a couple of pieces for my Ordinary Potato series, but haven't disciplined my self to post more. Trying to get the courage to post some of my poetry, but that seems too naked.

Congratulations on keeping at it... even those days when you find a find a fresh way to present some of your old presents are refreshing.

It was much more (> 100000), until I changed the robots.txt file for the generated weblogs. (http://lfs.drunkmenworkhere.org/robots.txt)
The server load getting high with lots of requests _per second_ from search-bots, especially from Yahoo.

I made this present yesterday, in between watching tv and reading online, about the bomb attacks in London. Flickr i find is amazing in its potential of people everywhere showing the world what happens anywhere...

The pictures i got from Peter, its very starnge seeing how the pictures looked proejcted on the window. I like the portrets, the images i took from the television, but the weirdest feeling is seeing my old alarm clock i've had for like 25 years or so being projected on a window in Brussels!

Leaving up the Gwen Stefani picture... i didn't like her two previous singles at all, but the latest one, Hollarback girl (or something like that) i do enjoy.. nice clip too... not as nice as Watsgeburt though......

Took some work home with me, just finished doing it... So i could make a new present, theoretically. Instrad, i will watch tv, trying to make up my mind what to vote this wednesday. After the big NON from France, i don't know, i still don't know. Yes or no? Yes to liberal economy, a free market, uncertainty, less power... or no? Yes to Microsoft maybe getting some software patents for which they are lobbying so many years..? (a big issue at work)

I don't know, i still don't know. Oh dear oh dear...

So yeah, gonna do that, after the presentation tomorrow a small break and more time for presents!

To be honest, i don't like this present very much, but i felt i needed to make something moving, extrapolate from where i was a couple of weeks (months?) ago. And sometimes it works to make something you don't like, so you think sharper, try harder. Something like that anyway. :-)

The drawing period seems to go on a bit. Thats how i feel, i'm just following my own footsteps, my own moodswings. RIght now, going for the little things, little thoughts, almost insignificant. Or maybe just plain insignificant! *grin*

WAlking home from the gym this evening, i was thinking about this smallness, making it tiny. Maybe i'm thinking too much about it, maybe i'm hoping that its an inward movement, only to come out the other end. Maybe i'm still thinking too much about the end result, about where i wanna end up, when i should just go with it and give up any feeling/desire of control.

Maybe maybe ...

Time to do some reading, doing the blog-rounds (still getting up to speed on these new-fangled blogs, my my, you sort of don't do anything for a year or two and all these people pop up doing and writing!) and try to get to bed early a bit.

I was - and probably will be again - in a more reflective mood than usual. And at times i like to write and throw in some lyrics i hear at the moment.

And an afterthought, i like the 5 days a week thing. It works best for me. Which doesn't mean that at times it feels like a burden, but that comes with the territory. All in all, i love making presents!

Feels like I have to write back something.
I like this site. And I think producing a present 5 times a week is not easy. That alone is already worth a compliment.
I enjoy looking on this place now and then to see what you did. And I am always happy to find a new present. And although I have my preferences any present is welcome!
So I guess I just want to encourage you to keep it going!

I found your site in the Flash for Dummies book! I have not even bought flash but need to get it for a project I am working on. I am little too left brained to think of the neat stuff you do. I am making a 'digital sign' for eye doctor's offices. Early version is at www.visionsciencesoftware.com. I have been using PowerPoint but the digital sign software doesn't like PP so I want to learn Flash. Anyway, I like your site very much. I am sure this is too much information but oh wellllll,,,,,,
-dan

Which reminds me, i'm slowly rediscovering netart, going back to my roots perhaps. I typed in jodi.org earlier this evening, just curious to see what was there.

WRONG MOVE!

Everything i ever disliked about netart and forgot i did came back with a vengance. Some very annoying popup windows came up, slowing everything down, some Classic application was downloaded to the desktop..

I had to force quit safari and swear to God i wil never, ever visit that site again ever in my life.

The whole experiene made me reconsider the whole netart thing, just call me a blogger!

To be honest, this present is a bit vague to me, i had some alcohol in my system. By the looks of it, it means something to me, but i don't know what...

Which makes me think of last night, i fell asleep on the couch, and once i woke up and got into bed, i remember being really awake. At one point, and i'm not sure ireally did happen like that, i feel from lying awake straight into a dream, but it was a lucid dream, in which i was conscious of dreaming. I remember writing my name a couple of times, i remember walking on a street and meeitng other people, thinking, 'those people are dreaming and i'm awake'.

It feels very far away now, and i'm not sure it actually did happen. But i do have the feeling it did...

Detention might have a meaning close to what i want, but i do think it refers to staying over specifically. 'Straf-werk' (punishment-work) means the work you have to do as a punishment, like writing lines a hundred times.

I did want to use the Dutch word 'strafwerk', which means the punishment you get at school, for example write 100 lines 'I may not make ugly faces.' I couldn't find a decent translation, so i settled for 'homework'. I like the 'work' part of the word.

Wondering today - wednesday March 16 - isn't there any word which i could use instead of 'homework'?

A rarity, this one. Never done a 'music video' before. When i have these imaginary conversations, or interviews (yeah, i got those :P ), i let people ask me why there is hardly any sound on my website. I always answer something like "i don't make music', i don't play an instrument', 'too easy'.

So as an exception, a big flash music video! I got the idea walking home from the gym, the idea of drawing, frame-by-frame animation, things that are scattered throughout my work. Halfway i realised this song from Bloc Party would fit nicely, and, bonus, its a free demo you can actually download from their website (www.blocparty.com).

I started at half past eight, but had to play with Muis in between a bit. I cheated near the end, copied all the frames i had done sofar - i was halfway - pasted it at the end and reversed the order.

I probably could have worked on it tomorrow evening as well, but i did kinda like the reversal, and anyway, its a sketch. So done in three hours, here's my music video!

Glad you like this one, got a soft spot for it myself. Such a relief sometimes, something not moving. This is actually done within strict bounds, almost all shapes are only three points, with only two of them with bezier-curves. The very small shapes are only two points, both with bezier-curves.

She loves me [submit]
She loves me not [submit]
She loves me [submit]
She loves me not [submit]
She loves me [submit]
She loves me not [submit]
She loves me [submit]
She loves me not [submit]
She loves me [submit]
She loves me not [submit]
She loves me [submit]

Like i said yesterday, you never know when an idea hits you. This time it was waking up a lot during the night with all this music in my head, and somewhere inbetween i got this idea, which seemed kinda fun. Took me about an hour to decide to get out of bed and just make the thing.

In case you wonder, i dont write all the code myself, simply adapt whats already out there.